If you could, please format it
WORD, DEFINITION
I want to add them to a flashcard deck for myself, I casually collect loanwords and have been getting turned on to trying out csv/flashcards lately haha
Feel free to do the same, if the format is followed you can just copy and paste it to a new line of the csv deck
Cwtch (pronounced like your are going to say cook, but replace the k with tch. It is a welsh word, essentially meaning “to make small”. Not as in shrinking, but in various instances like: A covering or shelter, the small space under the staircase, a hug or cuddle (because you are making the space between you small), and it also means when you like someone because you have a small space in your heart for them.
So the connotations are typically of being closed around and conforting.
So you’d use it in these ways:
I’ve found that this is a cousin of the word “couch” (as in the furniture) in English. Their ancestor referred to a bed or nest.